From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 04:44:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA05524 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 04:44:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from random.tpgi.com.au (random.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA05511 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 04:44:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eirvine@tpgi.com.au) Received: (from smtpd@localhost) by random.tpgi.com.au (8.8.4/8.8.6) id XAA14609; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 23:44:14 +1100 (EST) Received: from tar-ppp-173.tpgi.com.au(203.26.26.173), claiming to be "gretchen" via SMTP by random.tpgi.com.au, id smtpdAAAa003_4; Mon Jan 12 23:44:07 1998 From: "Eddie Irvine" To: "Goeringer, Michael" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: PS2 Mouse Support Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 22:05:45 +1100 Message-ID: <01bd1e80$dd9ddec0$ac1a1acb@gretchen> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a ps/2 mouse and it works fine with X in FreeBSD 2.2.5. When you boot up a generic kernel, go to configure mode and enable the ps2 mouse. It does conflict with the keyboard, but this is OK. Eddie. >For some time now, I have been unable to implement my X86 GUI >environment as a result of not being able to get my PS2 mouse to work. > >It appears that while in the GUI setup screen you can choose this type >of mouse, it is disabled in the kernel config for the reason that it >claims to have a conflict with the "IO_KBD" interupt vector 12